The foam isn't too bad but needs some patching where it was exposed when the covers failed. However, all of the foam under the "tuck 'n' rolled" panels will be replaced as I have to sew through it and the vinyl to form the pseudo T'n'R Here's the front bucket cover:

One more:

One of these days I'll start showing some progress LOL. In the mean time, yesterday I pull the pan off the 904 to see why it won't shift into drive and found fluid that looks like strawberry milkshake. I've been told its due to the submersion issue. (see OP)The transmission is basically toast. The amazing thing is that it has any go-power at all (got 1st and 2nd) but I guess I will be spending the cash I had rat-holed for engine work on a tranny kit first
While I had the front of the car at eye level, I took the grill and front valance off and took the cop bumpers off. IMHO, even without the grill and valance it looks better already without those @#$%& shin busters.
Onward and forward

Scott, while you are there, why don't you drill a couple holes in the bumper brackets and move the bumper in. That way you can do away with the rubber bumper fillers. There are a couple square holes in the brackets that you can drill out to 5/8". That will allow you to move everything back to where the 70-72's were. I'm afraid that the bumper will look too far forward if you don't.

I havn't done it personally but have read that it can be done. The brackets that mount to the frame rails have a few square holes in them just forward of the round holes. You are supposed to be able to move the whole assembly back. Here is the link. Look at ResQ911's post.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/favl...amp;postmarker=

Thanks again Darren.
I've been trying to get all my "Before" pictures out of the way and realized I haven't show the engine bay yet. Purdy ain't she?. Plain ol 318 in need of some TLC. Nothing special...unless you count the Sears aftermarket A/C compressor. And if you look real close, you can see I'm totally rockin' the sword handle transmission dip stick

Sheese! Has it really been nearly 2 years since I last posted? Well, in my defense, last summer, I spent a good part reorganizing my garage to better accommodate my hobbies. No I can't pull in and work in the garage. I haven't been able to do that for 15 years due to my other hobby, artistic blacksmithing and fabrication. However, I do have all (or most) of mine and Dad's tools under one roof now and have all of them accessible as well as my fab machines, i.e. welders, drill press, lathe and such, where before, the garage was a mess to work in; everything buried by the honey-do stuff that gets tossed out there "until I get time". But I digress...
Last fall I swore over a mug of my favorite brew that the engine and trans were going to get done this spring and to commit myself, I pulled them out and tore down the engine and wrapped the 904 up with a tarp and stored it for the winter. Monday morning, I took the block to my engine guy for boiling, decking and boring. Not sure how for out the holes were (not much by the fingernail over the ridge measurement), but we should be good at .030 over. I did some quick number crunching, and then googled a cid calculator, and found that at .030 over, it makes a 318 a 322. No real reason to report that except I’m glad I don’t have to go .060 over because that would yield about 327 cubic inches and I ain’t having no 327 in my Mopar!! Just sayin!
The crank mic'd out to near factory specs and so far, the valves are looking pretty good but I'm at the very least, looking at exhaust guides and of course, grinding. Once I get the heads apart and off the engine guy I will clean house and bring the trans in and get started on that. I bought a complete rebuild kit and shift reprogram kit; all new clutches, steels, bushings bands etc.
Well, that’s all to report for now. Next post, I hope to have something picture worthy to include.
Scott

Well its been a long hot summer but we're making some progress. I had a set back on the block; the original block turned out to be bad. After decking it my machinist discovered a hole in the wall of #5 cylinder. Probably a result of sitting for so long after the flood. (see OP) After finding a donor block, there was another delay as it had a small chip at the top of one of the holes that machinist wasn't sure would come out after it was decked. Fortunately the guy I got it from was willing to trade for another and we moved on. Acid dipped, decked, bored .030" new bearings pistons and rings.

I couldn't find a degree wheel in town to save me so I did some research and found someone had drawn one up on CAD and posted it on another car forum. I printed it out as large as I could on printer paper and glued it to a piece of sheet metal with 3M spray adhesive and then drilled (hole-sawed) a hole in the center.

Couldn't do anything until I made a pointer...
I'm using Comp's High Energy cam kit XE256H-10 with a .447/.455 lift and 256/268 duration and I got the cam withing 1 degree of the 106 degree spec using -4 notch on the crank gear.

Just about done! Ready for paint tomorrow?? (No, it's not gonna be Red )

Had to make a heat shield for the intake...

Before I drilled it for the rivets:

Ready to install:

Finally got it back in the car:

Thanks, Doug. Are those your stock bumpers?

mine is just another 74 challenger too! 26 years and counting.

Nice!